 Awesome. Okay. All right. Let's get started from where we left off, but let's do a quick recap. So what all did we cover in so far in Chapter 3? Okay. So Francis just said demons. So demons of Francis. Okay. All right. All right. Let's go. What have you covered so far? Okay. Deacons. What does the meaning of deacons? Okay. What's the Greek word for deacons? Yeah. Dioconos. Dioconos. You've got to sound like a Greek dude when you say that. Maximus Decemus Medidius. Okay. What else? Apostolos. Apocalypse is the end of the world, dude. Yes. So I don't know what that is. Apocalypse. Apostolos. Okay. Good fun. Good fun. All right. What did we learn from the first local church? Jerusalem local church? Just brief points that you remember. Right on top of your head, right? Right. Yeah. They watched Jesus. They learned from his own life. Okay. And we see the emergence of deacons in Acts Chapter 6. It simply means to serve, help, attend to and whatnot. And the way they chose those people, it's brilliant, right? Honest report, full of the Holy Spirit, full of wisdom, took full responsibility for daily distribution of the food. Okay. It's amazing. They took responsibility account. That means there was a sense of accountability as well with that. Okay. And what else? Women were also part of this, were also deacons who were in many local churches as we see that. Sorry. Yeah. So they were not only responsible for administrative work, but they were also encouraged to take part in spiritual ministry, right? And that resulted in, yeah, science and medicine wonders, and that resulted in new churches being raised, new local churches in different regions being raised as well. Okay. And so with that, we see that there was an emergence of elders as well. So we had the apostles and then we have the deacons, you know, and then we see the emergence of elders. And let's see what the notes and the Bible has to say about the emergence of elders. Okay. So in Acts Chapter 11, we see the leader at Jerusalem referred to as elders. Okay. In Acts Chapter 11, we can go through that entire chapter when you can. So that's where this word is being introduced for the first time. The elders or the leaders, sorry, the leaders in the local church of Jerusalem are referred to, okay, as elders. So that means a bunch of people saying, okay, hey, they, this group is called the elders. Okay. So they also did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. One of the references in Acts Chapter 11 was 30. So they are referring to, they sent it to the elders, you know, they are referring to this group of people or leaders as elders. Okay. Now let's read Acts Chapter 14, verse 21 to 23. Acts Chapter 14, verse 21 to 23. And probably the next class, what I'll do is run through the entire timeline of the Book of Acts. Okay. So Book of Acts is written by who? Luke. Okay. He's, yes. Okay. For those of you online, I think people here in class have had extra coffee, extra tea, and so, yeah. So the Gospel of Luke, part two, okay. And who is he writing it to? The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. He's writing it to his friend called Theophilus. Okay. So that's the context. So he's writing to a friend, all of these records. So the next class, as I mentioned, we'll go through the timeline of the entire Book of Acts. Like what is the actual year span? Like how many years, you know, does the book of Acts actually span over? So we'll do that in the next class. So in Acts Chapter 14, verse 21 and 23, we are again looking at the emergence of elders. What it really means is, okay, verse 21 it says, And when they had preached the Gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch. Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, we must, through many tribulations, enter the kingdom of God. Verse 23, to our context. So when they had appointed elders in every church and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Okay. So in verse 23, the key word, they're appointed elders. The Greek word appointed word, the word used there is ordained. Yeah, ordained. So are you an ordained minister of God? We ask, no? Like, are you ordained? Where were you ordained? When were you ordained? So the simple understanding of what ordain is means to appoint or to elect or to choose or to be in charge of. Okay, so that's what it really is. So that means, it goes on to say that these elders that says they appointed elders, that means they were elected. And it was not just one person's decision, the group of people were involved. Sometimes the congregation was involved in choosing, okay, we elect this person as an elder or we elect so and so as the elders of this church. Are you with me? So another important thing, again, to ponder on is the word elder. When we think of that word, the meaning of the word elder is what? Older. Okay, so back then what they would choose, the way they would choose is, or they would consider most of the elders were older in age, but young in the Christian walk because they were just saved or new believer as we call it, right? New believer, but they've come long enough to have enough spiritual maturity above everybody else. Are you following? Right, so they were spiritually mature, although they were new believers, they were spiritually mature and they were older in age. Hence elders, okay? So it also means a presbytero. Presbytero is another Greek word called presbyteros. It simply means spiritual leader, so it's like, and that's where we get the word presbyterian and one of the denominations, right? As presbyterian, okay? So that's the word elder comes from the Greek word presbyteros. So in many sense, you know, you're like the spiritual leaders here in college, like your leadership in a sense, right? So and, you know, when you take up some leadership role in the church, it can be addressed or referred to as, yeah, presbyter. Yeah, presbyterian is become a denomination. And I think I'm not sure if I mentioned that there are at least 40,000 odd denominations. Okay, so guys, we're going on a journey now. All right, we see apostles right from the day of Pentecost, 120 people, 12 apostles being selected and the 12 apostles choosing deacons, seven deacons. And then, you know, I'm sure they've multiplied. And then from there on, we see elders, right? And this the context behind us understanding what elders is, is take someone taking responsibility or group of people taking responsibility or two or three olderly people, but spiritually mature. We're known as elders, but it simply means presbyter, okay? Then we go on to see in Acts chapter 15, where they worked as one team, apostles and elders and deacons. Now it's all coming under one kind of bracket now, elders and deacons. And they continue to function as one team. Okay, for example, I'm not going to go through the entire verse there in Acts chapter 15 in your notes. Page 20, 30 in your hard copy and page 20 in your soft copies. Acts chapter 15 verse one, two, six and 22. Now, what is the context there is, sorry? I beg your pardon? Consul? Consul? No, yeah, Acts chapter 15, yeah. Yeah, so what is happening there is, there is going to, a big major debate is happening between Peter and Apostle Paul and the group of people. Okay, so the proper Jews are saying, like, you know, people, the leaders in Jerusalem are saying, if a Gentile wants to follow Jesus, he has to be circumcised. Paul is saying, no, not necessary. Okay, so here's the thing in verse six of that chapter, Acts chapter 15, it says, now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. Okay, that means to discuss about this thing. Okay, so saying, you know what, it's not like, okay, we are deciding on this. This is what you have to follow. It wasn't like that. Again, just like how to solve in Acts chapter six, the problem was there. Okay, they were being, you know, ignored and they were not served properly. Come, let's get together. Let's reason together. Let's discuss on this matter and see how we can solve this. Now, this is not just a food issue. This is a doctor, you know, the doctrine issue here. But still, the method remains the same. The principle is they come together, let's function together as one team. Okay, you can have different titles, whatever it is, but let's do something that is good for the people. Are you guys with me? Okay, and Paul, again, constantly uses these words in his, using the word elders in his other epistles and he says, you know, in Acts chapter 20, he refers to elders in the church of Ephesus. A church in Ephesus is like, okay, hey, elders, let's have a team meeting. I'm going to be coming here. Let's meet in Cafe Coffee Day in Jerusalem. Okay, let's talk about this. Okay. And so they function together as one team. And I want us to look at another very important word in Acts chapter 20 verse 28. Actually, I'll read verse 17 also. Acts chapter 20 verse 17. It says, from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church. So he was in one place, they are in another place, but he called. He must have sent a letter, say, okay, hey, let's meet. Okay, to the elders of the church. But verse 28 is amazing. It says, therefore take heed to yourself and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. You can highlight that word overseers. To shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Okay, so now we see another title being introduced here as a church of God. Right, for the house of God, the household of God, the local church is also known as a church of God. And the word before that is overseers. Okay, everybody say overseer. Right, so it is from this word, the Greek word, we get the word bishop. From the word overseer. Okay, it again, it is in the context to feed the flock. That means to shepherd the flock, to guide them, to lead them, okay, to take them and to take care of them. And it is from that same root word, we get the word pastor. It means the same, right? Right, pastor, bishop. Bishop, just keep increasing, huh? Yeah. My name is Bishop Reverend Pastor Ocean Jonas. Any more title and India will be saved, right? Yes, correct. So towards the end of this chapter, we are going to look at different systems of the church. And that we'll talk about the hierarchy and all of that. But initially the part at the core, we saw that they function together. The whole purpose was to serve better. Like that was their only agenda. That was their only objective is how can we serve the people better? How can we serve the people who are being added to this church better? That was their only objective. That was a heart of the matter, isn't it? So the same thing with presbyter, bishop, it was to feed the flock to take care and lead them as well. So the role of an elder or in other words a presbyter or a bishop or a shepherd or a pastor are the three things. Spiritual maturity, that means they had to set godly example. Okay, can I get an amen? They had to set a godly example of the Christian life. And then spiritual ministry that they need to be active in the word of God and doctrine. They need sound doctrine, not just anything. And spiritual oversight, that means God their flock. Okay, so they function together as one. All right, we need to scoot. Okay, let's just skip to the next section in page 22. I'm just going to skip the emergence of ministry teams. You can read that later. So from apostles, from 12 apostles to seven deacons to, I don't know how many elders every church must have had two or one or two, three. And then we eventually come to a place where there was one overseer for all of them. Answers your question, Anand. Okay, there was eventually one overseer to all of them. So we read that in the emergence and the section where emergence of senior leaders or pastors. Okay, so I mentioned in I think Acts chapter 15. Wait, that's a very important chapter. I hope we get it right. Now we'll read, okay, Acts chapter 15 will read from verse 13 to 19. I will request someone to read it. Okay, but the context is this, isn't it? The initial leader was who of the local church in Jerusalem? Peter. Yeah, and so he moves and then it was given to transfer to James. Okay, so with that in mind, we'll read Acts chapter 15 verse 13 to 19. Okay, thank you. So the key verse, you know, of all these four verses is verse 13 in Acts chapter 15. It says, after they finished speaking, that means from verse one to verse 12, other people were speaking, apostles and elders were speaking. And after they spoke, everybody gave, you know, voiced out their opinions, their suggestions and whatnot. But one person had the final call. That is James. It says after they finished speaking, James replied, brothers, thank you for speaking. Now listen to me. Are you with me? Okay, so this is the, this is where the introduction of say one overseer for a local church is being introduced as well. Okay, so that is a pastor. So in, and later we see, I'm just going to came through this section again. So we see Timothy being, you know, given responsibility to oversee a church as a pastor. And what are the, who else? Timothy, we look at both first Timothy there. And another example of this is a book of Revelation, right? But you know, Jesus is addressing different churches. One of the churches is the church of Ephesus. One of the churches is the church of Ephesus, right? And so it starts off by saying to a messenger at the church of Ephesus. Okay. The messenger comes from the, again, Greek word Angelos. Angelos means angel. So it can be mean both angel. That means. And also a pastor is known as a messenger or an angel because he's a messenger. Okay. Now, obviously Jesus is not going to give some divine instruction of how to run a church to an angel. So here in this context, it simply means a pastor. Are you with me? Now it becomes very easy if you have an NKJV version of the Bible is and you did you have Christology in the first year? Okay. So there you would have learned the difference between the angel and an angel. Okay. So the angel is what is referred to as Christophany or theophany. That means it's a manifestation of a pre-incarnate Christ. Joshua chapter five and all we see, you know, the captain of the Lord of Lord's armies, you know, stood before Joshua. So what is that? That is Christophany. That means pre-incarnate manifestation of Jesus Christ. That's what it is. So that's how you know the difference between the angel and an angel. Okay. So all of that again comes from the same Greek word, Angelos, pastor, et cetera, et cetera. All right. You guys all with me? All okay. What happened? I haven't heard that. Okay. Right. And every time in the Old Testament, you will time and time again read. Yeah. The angel of God showed up. The angel of God showed up. But if there was a messenger, an angel that brings an angel as in, but let's see, that's only the NKJV version of it. It's not there in every translation. But to understand if it's the angel of God or theophany, that's a pre-incarnate Christ, you have to read the entire context of the verse, not just one verse. Okay. But all of that in another subject, another day during lunchtime or something. Okay. Now, let's just talk about the five-fold ministers and team ministry. Okay. Five-fold ministers and team ministry. Okay. Just to, can I get someone online to go through that section? I hope everybody's okay online. Five-fold ministers and team ministry. All right. I'll go through it. The standing features we see in the book of Acts is team ministry. That means everybody worked a function together as a team. And so a couple of points that's mentioned over there is the local church is the place where ministries are to be birthed, equipped, and released. Okay. Where are you? I mean, soft copy page 23, page 34, hard copy. The local church is the place where ministries are to be birthed, equipped, and released. All ministries, five-fold ministries and others need to be rooted in the local church for spiritual refreshing and accountability. I'm just going through those points guys for us so that it's self-explanatory. All ministers, pastors, elders, deacons, other five-fold ministries and other believers coexist and function together in a local church. They coexist. Okay. And last point, the calling and ministry of some people will require them to go out to the world or to the body of Christ at large. Whereas others may be called to minister within their local church body. So I don't like to use an example, usually like compare the local church to something. But I heard one of the preachers do this. I really like that analogy. He says he said the local church is like the Noah's Ark. He said the local church or the church in general is like a Noah's Ark. Okay. Why? You step inside Noah's Ark. You know, it's not the seven-star cruise liner. Like, wow, swimming pool, all the, you know, pool, but is it? No, it wasn't, right? It's just all kinds of animals are there. Noah's Ark. You step inside and with all kinds of animals comes, you know, their smell. And whatnot. So it's not, it wasn't a great smelling place as well. Right? But it was the safest place on earth. Wasn't it? Yeah. So you step into a church. No church is perfect. You will find all kinds of characters. We use that word, no? It's like, dude, that person is a character, dude. You know, this person in my team is a character, dude. But it's the safest place on earth, isn't it? Right? And so I'm teaching worship ministry for the final years. One of the things we learned there is the difference between a local church worship team and a band. Okay. Now a local church worship team is exclusive and a band is inclusive. What does it mean? Is a band will say us four and no more. But the local church worship team is we have three auditions here. Guys, whoever wants to audition, come audition, be part of the worship team. But the band. Another thing is, is a boy band or girl band aged between so and so. No, whereas the worship team or local church worship team is again open to all of every age. Right? It's not just men or women, young people with older, but more of that in next year, third year worship ministry. You see, and you'll read more about it in first chronicles chapter 25, where in David's worship team, you see the young and the old were part of it. Right? And so that's a few things to ponder about is that for a successful church is one of the signs that I would say is that our two generations functioning together. Right? When you know the time when Joshua was fighting Amalekites, when Joshua was fighting Amalekites, Moses was up on the hill praying. Right? Now, when Joshua was losing the battle, the reinforcements were sent to whom? Normally, you would think, okay, those who was losing the battle, you would send more armies, more men. It's like, go guys, help him. No. But when Joshua was losing the battle down here, reinforcement was sent to Moses up there. Moses represents the father generation. Joshua represents the sons generation, sons and daughters. Don't get offended. Okay. So you need the father generation, the elders and us. We can't function without their prayers, without their support, without their encouragement. And it's a, we need to work hand in hand for a church to function well. Are you guys with me? Right? Okay. Cool. So we're going towards the last section of this chapter is the different forms of the church structure. Okay. Different forms of the church structure. This is where I really wish I had another mic. You could also. Okay. So this is follow along with me. It shouldn't take long before we could just close this thing. Okay. So different systems. Now as this chapter is one of the underlying facts about this chapter is evolution. That means everything evolved, how the church evolved in the book of acts itself, isn't it? From 3000 members and how deacons were introduced, elders, leaders, pastors, bishops, et cetera, et cetera. And now hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years later, here we are. And we have managed to make something out of it and introduce our own systems of it. And that's what we're going to learn today. Okay. So different forms of church structure. Okay. So one is the clerical system. So what's a clerical system? Any idea? Clerical system. Clergy. You get the word clerical from the clergy. So the word. Yeah. So clergy means a group of people ordained or appointed to lead a church. Right. My wedding was conducted by a clergy. This funeral was conducted by a clergy, a leaders, a bunch of leaders of a church. Okay. A clerical system. And then you just have and you have the lady. So it's there and you're not. So a lady is just a group of people, but they're not part of leadership. The group of people in a church, but they're not part of leadership. Okay. This is very important. This is like, see guys, the, all of this is FYI, like, or GFI. Okay. Good for your information. Like, you know, so it's very important for you to know and understand all of these different systems. Okay. It might just be very theoretical and whatnot. Why do we need to learn all of this? But you need to, it's just a basic understanding of how all the different churches function. Okay. So a lot of the main line churches come under this category. Name of you. Baptists. Have you heard of Baptists? No, sir. I'm only Pentecostal sir. I don't. Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Anglicans. Yeah. Okay. CSI. Yeah. Sure. Why not? Right. So all of them work like this, have a clerical system to it. They have a group of leaders who will take decisions together, who will conduct, et cetera. A lot of things of the matters of the church together. Okay. That's the clerical system. What happens there? Usually there is a three-fold order, bishops, priests and deacons answering a question. Okay. So three-fold order. There's some sort of a hierarchy there. So okay. So that's the clerical system. Then is the elder system led by a group of elders. Now, one of the denominations that I'm aware of has the system is the presidents. They don't have one leader, like an overseer or like a pastor. They have a group of leaders who makes the decisions for the church. No. They don't have a pastor. That's why it's called the elder system. Sorry. Elders. Elders. They take turns. So now that I'm aware of, it's at least from people that I've come across who were part of the brethren churches. Yeah. Yeah. But see, there may be. I'm not really sure, but like from the churches that I've seen, I have a lot of friends who are brethren. They just have elders and they don't have one overseer. But there might be churches, brethren churches who might have but yeah. How is it in APC churches? So we have one overseer. We kind of follow the acts thing. So we have one overseer. We have pastor Ashish, right? And so then we have associate pastors. So we all report to him. So yeah. Yeah. Right. So we'll answer that towards the end of this chapter. We'll definitely answer that. Okay. So that's, so what's the first system guys? Classical system. Okay. The clergy system as we call it. Okay. And the second one is the elder system. Okay. So led by a group of elders has shown reasonable success. You know, recently a cooperative leadership. It requires cooperative leadership. Why? Because there are at least three elders. They need to agree on one thing. Right. They need to cooperate with each other. Okay. In some cases may cause difficulty in casting a single vision. Three people. Yeah. Two people itself. Okay. You bring three people. Okay. I have a one vision. You have one vision. You have another vision. Now we have to discuss the break our heads about how can we accommodate all of our three different visions? Okay. So that can be very challenging. Right. So who decides what is best for the church? And how do you know that's right? Example. Right. So. Okay. Let's go to the next one. Independent local churches led by individual pastors with pastoral teams. Plenty of room for vision, creativity and growth. However, there's a danger of totalitarianism. What a word. Totalitarianism. So what does that mean? What does that mean? Okay. Let's just say that word. Come on, guys. For the fun of it. Totalitarianism. Yeah. Totalitarianism. Yeah. Totalitarianism. The what? Tourism. Oh, I'm not going to say that. Yeah. I don't want to be on trouble online. Okay. So what does it mean? Totalitarianism. What does it mean? It is a slash called dictatorial or dictatorial. I need some coffee guys. No. So I'm. Yeah. Dictatorial. Leadership. Totalitarianism. Or dictatorship. There you go. It's easy. Right. So there's a slash there. So what's a dictatorship? You make yourself as a leader. Okay. And then. Yeah. Yeah. So that is the example. Right. So it's a system of government. In other words. So modern day you would use the word communist. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that is the example. Right. So it's a system of government. In other words. Modern day you would use the word communist. Right. So you a system of government that says, okay. Your will doesn't matter. Okay. You think you have a free will. It's good for you. But you really don't. My will is your will. Okay. Let my will be done in yours. Right. It's like that. Okay. Yeah. North Korea. Russia. China. So. A day that can be a danger. And when we talk about this. Independent local judges in the system where there's. I mean, I'm saying it's a danger. That means it's a danger that can be avoided. Okay. So yeah. Failure improper succession in some cases. So that last point is very crucial failure in proper. Succession in some cases, not all cases. Now what does that mean is, okay. So what happens if that leader decides to move on in life. Someone is no backup. So what if there's no one to take over? Right. So that's the says it's failure in proper succession. In some cases, not all cases. Right. Yes. A leadership transition has to be. So you see the thing is it's there in the word of God. When you read numbers, chapter eight was 25. Even Levitical priesthood. It says the priests who are responsible of in the tabernacle of Moses. You know, when they come to the age of 50, their responsibility changes. So younger people take over what they used to do. And so there's a transition in leadership and in responsibility. Okay. So, and it's, it's kind of it's God's idea. It's there. You read numbers eight 25 and you can do the entire chapter for your own thing. But anyways, that's independent local churches. That's one of the system and network of churches. The families of God, vineyard, new life churches. There's so many other churches. Hillsong, planet shakers. What's the people's church now? Okay. I mean, there are more, isn't it? So network of churches. So that's what we're looking at what the system is like there. There are different ways how each network is organized. Overall a useful model. Okay. There are different ways. Each network is organized. Okay. So in some cases, there is a danger of too much control. Competition among churches within the network. Okay. So let's say, for example, in APC, if, if APC East is fighting against APC West, like, you know, constantly drawing comparison saying, okay, hey, you know, it's not healthy, isn't it? Now that is again a danger, a temptation that can be avoided. But we need to be mindful of, but then it is a useful model. You want to plant a lot of churches. Now APC is doing that, isn't it? We have 11 other locations outside of Bangalore. In Bangalore, we have five one in Bangalore. And then we have the list goes on Kalyan, Barampur, Chandigarh, etc. Rajasthan, Rajasthan, and Varanasi, we have three. So you see, it's helpful to have these network of churches. But we just, again, have to be mindful of how we function all of that. Yeah. Sorry? Yeah. Right. So it can be like a collaborative kind of a thing. Yeah. I know, I don't think that comes, that would come under network of churches, but network of churches is an example of APC, like I gave it, or like Hillsong, London, Hillsong, Sydney, you know, Planet Shakers, Melbourne, yeah, many branches like that. But now again, it says the danger in control, you know, but each, the authenticity of the beauty is when you have a branch in Bangalore. So we have the pastor there has given freedom to plan accordingly. Right. And the same thing with a pastor in different locations, geographically, they have the freedom to decide what they want to do there. Kind of thing. So that's another system. You have house churches, apostolic church networks. I'm just going, it's coming through house churches. Okay. So it's, it's modern day. And so the birth of synagogues, we've heard of synagogues, right? The synagogues is the, it's a final form of house churches that happened that was initiated during the people of Israel's exile to Babylon. You know, the simple, the temple of Solomon was destroyed by Babylonians, right? And they were taken into exile for 70 years. Now, the temple meant everything to the people of Israel. It was one common place where they could have corporate worship. Let's, you know, why the, why did the Psalmist say, come, let us go to the house of God. Or I was glad when they said to me, come, let us go to the house of God. Because it was one common place where they could go and celebrate. And when they were, that was destroyed. People were destroyed. Their spirits were broken. And one of the Psalmists says, by the rivers of Babylon, I mean, there's a song, you know. So for 70 years, they did not have a common place to meet. What do they do? So they started these small cell groups. And the final form of that is what later became as a synagogue in the New Testament. Like, you know, it's, it's, it took time to evolve. Okay. And so we kind of get an idea of house churches, you know, like that cell based churches or mega churches. I'm just going to go through that. So the point here is that there is no perfect structure. Once again, to answer your question on, okay. There is no perfect structure. The bottom line is we must be aware of what God wants us to do. Are we aware of his blueprint? Are we aware of his, his word? Like what is he, what does he want to do in and through us? Are we led by the Holy Spirit like the early church? So and pick a system and it is very important that we honor different denominations. The reality, the fact of the matter is in this day and age, there are many denominations, right? But it, and I don't think it is right for us to say, okay, hey, you know, comparing one denomination with another, putting one, one denomination down and whatnot. So it's none of our business, isn't it? It's respect what they believe in, whatever it is, you have the healthy discussion. If you want to, okay, one denomination believes in manifestation of the gifts of the spirit. The other denomination does not, okay, if you have a friend like that, you want to have a healthy discussion, it's, it's, it's fine. But then to put, to sound condescending saying like, you know, I'm better than yours, my denomination, it's unnecessary, right? And pick a structure. Now again, all of this, we learned all of this is to, is you pick a system that works for you? Look, let's say you want to plant a church, you know, you go through all this list of systems, okay, inky, pinky, ponky, you know, the bottom line is again, whatever system you choose, you know, to function with, it's very important that you're constantly dependent on the Holy Spirit to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to be led by His voice. And that is really the bottom line of it all, is to be led by the leading of His voice. Yes, absolutely. So in the last class, we learned about speaking the truth in love, isn't it? And so that is important is, and I am stressing this, that we need to have a healthy discussion because nothing, nothing can be accomplished by having an argument, nothing. At the end of the argument, you will be tired, the other person will be tired and nothing will be accomplished. We will be still in the same place, the world didn't become a better place. So have healthy discussions, it's very important to have healthy discussions, etc. Okay, you pick a system that will work for you, for your church based on your location, the people, who your audience are, all of that matters, factors into the system that you want to choose. Understood, right? Yeah? Okay, so let's stop here, that's the end of the system sessions. Yes, this is one book, Sean. There is a lot, yes. As mentioned, yeah, it's pretty deep, it's a lot of information to absorb. So yes, have a lot of coffee when you come for the session. Alright, thank you all online for joining in, God bless you, I'll see you next week.